“ This year ’s Chelsea Flower Show was an important event for us , as it was an chance to show the lineament of our repeat blossoming clematis . The exhibit won me my 31st Gold Medal and our first Presidents Award , ” says breeder Raymond Evison , whose clematis start their life history at the Guernsey Clematis Nursery . Evison partake the journey of snoop a flower display four month afterward than planned , the need to increase propagation by 25 % , and how their procreation programme in China is going . Raymond Evison and Lindsay Reid at the IPM Essen 2020“An chance to show our repeat flowering clematis”The 2021 Chelsea Flower Show was hypothecate to fall out in May . However , as a consequence of the pandemic , the RHS resolve to prorogue the event until September . Evison explains that this was in reality a approval in disguise for their company . “ The delay was a great opportunity to show that our clematis are repeat flowering . We let the plants that were fate for the original show in May acquire . Then , at the remainder of May / beginning of June , we cut all the plants down to about 5 - 6 cm . They were then put in the moth-eaten computer storage for about 4 - 5 weeks , and after that we took the plants out of the cold memory , basically telling them that they just had a winter and that it is now spring , time to grow and blossom . ”Raymond Evison Clematis ’ winning exhibit at this year ’s Chelsea Flower Show“We exhibited about 2500 plants at the show , so there was a good deal of work call for . In addition , we did n’t quite get our timing perfect , as the weather rarify this a mo . Still , the visitors and judge were very impressed that we got May / June flowering plants to bloom and look beautiful at the end of September . ” As a termination , the exhibit won the Gold Medal as well as the President ’s Award , as it was considered the most worthy exhibit in the whole Chelsea Flower Show , include the Show Gardens , by the RHS President . Increasing generation by 25%At the Guernsey Clematis Nursery , they have seen gross revenue increase drastically this yr . “ People were able to devote more time to their gardens , and our clematis have become very popular throughout the world . Our sales have increased by 20 % compare to last year . We adjusted our program and devoted more staff to propagation and yield , increasing our propagation by 25 % . It is a challenge to increase labor , however , as the new Brexit rule are limiting the numeral of foreign people that can come to the UK . In summation , our glasshouse is on an island , make it more difficult to all of a sudden get more people to work here . ”Mr . Yu of The Bejijng Florascape and Raymond Evinson in Beijing in 2019Breeding plan in ChinaIn April 2020 , the partnership between Raymond J. Evison Ltd. and Chinese stock breeder and grower The Beijing Florascape Co. Ltd. was announced . Together , they were starting a breeding political program in China , from which newfangled ornamental cultivar will become available worldwide . “ So far , I have not been capable to move around to China yet , which is very unfortunate . However , our training partners are carrying on with the bringing up program that we have set . They have been able to go out into the wild , collecting some aboriginal plant cloth in China that we wanted to have in the upbringing programme . We are collecting very sensibly and are honor the natural state , so we are not digging up plant . Our opinion is that , if we require to call for clematis ejaculate , then we will do that , but mostly we collect cutting cloth so that the plant in the wild is not destroyed . I hope that in June 2022 , I can go to China to see the breeding developing myself , and see the unfolding of some of the first hybrids that have been give rise in China . ”
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